Dakar, Senegal on Tuesday officially began the first phase of Covid-19 vaccination, taking a new step in the crusade against the pandemic.

Senegalese Minister of Health and Social Action Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine in front of the press at his ministry, which symbolised th

Chicago, In an ongoing panel survey conducted by Northwestern University (NU) and the Ohio State University, researchers find Americans significantly less concerned they could die of Covid-19, while their overall perceived likelihood of contracting the virus remained relatively consistent from December through February.
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Nairobi, Ministers of environment and other leaders from more than 150 nations concluded a two-day online meeting of the Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in which the Assembly warned that the world risks new pandemics "if we don't change how we safeguard nature".

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Washington, US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers on Tuesday that US economic recovery remains uneven and far from complete, and the path ahead is highly uncertain.

"The resurgence in Covid-19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths in recent months is causing great hardship for m

Agra, Almost a year after the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country, the Taj city is slowly limping back to normalcy, though the hospitality industry continues to struggle as foreign visitors are not coming due to the suspension of international flights.

Though commercial activities in the city have picked up some mom

Srinagar, Night temperatures throughout the Kashmir Valley remained above or around the freezing point on Wednesday as the weather office forecast a spell of rain or snow in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Friday.

"Heavy rain and snow is expected at some places during February 25-26. Probable impacts include

Bangkok, Thailand on Wednesday received the first batch of 200,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine from China's Sinovac Biotech, as the country gears up to kick start its immunisation drive soon.

The 200,000 doses, the first shipment among 2 million doses Thailand ordered from the Chinese biopharmaceutical fi

Washington,  The total number of global Covid-19 cases has topped 112 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.48 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Wednesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that

Seoul, South Korea's Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun on Wednesday said that the first shipment of the Covid-19 vaccines in the country marks the beginning of the long-awaited return to everyday life prior to the pandemic.

"We begin the historic first vaccinations on Friday with vaccines that are shipped tod

New Delhi, Poorer countries will most likely "bear the brunt of hundreds of thousands of needless deaths" due to inequalities in access to Covid-19 vaccines.

This dire warning was given by the Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland in a video address to the High-Level Segment at the 46th sessio